Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-09
EASTER.
TO-NORROW MARKS THE END OF THBiLBN-
TEN TERN.
The Long Array Of Novelties Peculiar 10 the Season
Some Points for PT-
chaSerS.

Glad Easter bells,
Strong brazen bells,
| Stout silver bells OF centuries,
| On ether seas
| OF boundless space,
Their ripling place
Your notes LOST echoes keep ana trace
Eternal as eternltles.
| Oh Easter bells,
Strong brazen bells,
Sweet silver bells OF centuries. ,,Luu
| From Easter BeaS' W a. H.
Tomorrow is Easter, marking the emo
of the somber season of Lent, and IS day
conspicuous for brightly cOlOred eggs, new
bonnets, fine Church music, and also, oil
late years, for the distribution OF long
list of what the book sellers, stationers and
fancy goods dealers term Easter novel
ties''-under which rather uncertain and
misleading name is heaped long array OF
souyeneirs of the season in the form OF
books, PLAQUES, cards, panels and dear
knows what else besides. Like every
thing else in the world, these sOuveneirs
take fresh turn each year. The day OF
the Easter card, pure and simple, like the
Christmas card and the valentine, has gone
by. The Easter card still exists, but 1t
fills subordinate and incOnspicuOus place
beside the long role Of newer favorltes, the
fresh darlings of the hour. Nobody has
thought it worth his while to contrive for
| it a novel turn or an unlocked for device.
1t is as it always was, hand painted per
haps, dainty of q certainty, rough edged
like mouse nibbled stationery, pretty
enough to ruit anybOdy's fancy, but less
elaborate than of yOre. To supplement 1t
or TO take its place has come the great
satin panel that claims its right among the
pictures on your wall, the Easter book
with its bits of verse and quaint illustra-
tions, the bronze and silver Easter lilies
and Easter bric-a-brac of half hundred
different kinds.
The special artist of the festivals finds
his task harder than il used to be. Taste
grows more exacting and the breadths of
satin that his brush has worked over make
an art gallery by themselves. Plush holds
its own in the Easter panels and the pos
sibilities of cellulOid are just beginning to
be realized.
The Easter egg is an annual visitant,
but this spring one hardly recognized the
familiar friend. The egg this season be-
longs in a nest, and if the cOnglomeration
of horse hair and straw he the genuine ar
ticle filched FROM bluebird or sparrow, it
is 30 much the more acceptable gift. In
prominent book store tempting Easter
novelty is q tiny nest with three robins
eggs in it, all mounted nicely i'll the crotch
of couple of sticks The nest is lined
with satin, and the mother bird is perched
on the rim. In another instance there is
u horn of plenty, filled to the top with
eggs, and in another there is q tiny basket
filled with the same articles.
Near allied to eggsare the mounted halves
of chicks and ducks lust out of the
shell, " the dOwney bodies, bright eyes,
and miniature beak and leg forming a con-
trast to the fine plaque against which they
are glued. Another novelty i'll placques
is a bit of board frosted white, across
which is thrown a miniature bOugh that
carries little brown bird, lowering
over a nest, and three or four high |
colOred eggs. In the same line Is a rustic |
stile, crusted with snow, on the top rail OF
which a blue bird tits prOphesying the
final coming of the long delayed spring. |
1t is "a hard on bird TO be stuffed to add
to the realism of an Easter offering as to
be bound wing and claw on spring bon
net, one would suppose; but the world has
stopped SHINING in the millinery line for a
brief interval, and virtue in every depart
ment is more than one has right TO ex-
pect.
The Easter book is dainty thing 1t
comes in box, has cream or pure white
covers, over which lilies, bird designs, etc,
are thrown in crimson, gold and silver, and
generally bears the imprint OF White,
Stokes & Allen. They cover such titles
as: Easter Flower3," by Susie Barston
Shedding; Easter" by Rose Porter; "A
Child's Dream of Star" by Charles
Dickens; Silver Thoughts OF Great Minds
by Louise 5. HOughlin; Easter Bell" by
II. H.; "Heralds of Easter" by Dora
Read GOodale, and so on. These books
find a large sale, and are very popular.
Besides what we have hastily enumera-
ted, there are host of other pretty things,
in knick- knacks of one sort or another, all
wonderfully reasonable in price, consider
ing the artistic cleverness Of design and
execution. In the next column the REGIS
TER presents its Easter Offering to its read
ers Faster Mon,' by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox.